21st Century Skills

• Continuous partial attention followed by hyperfocus - Multitasking
  • Check out Linda Stone's work - http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail739.html
  • Dividing Attention Deliberately
• The art of ignoring what isn't important
• Knowing what information needs to be stored in memory, what needs to be stored in your own devices and what can be found on the web.
• Reading and writing in an intertextual, social, & multimodal world
• Protecting identity & privacy & Balancing with (free) access
• What are the new ethics?
• Sorting the wheat from the chafe, the signal from the noise - filtering
  • Crap Detection
  • Connecting
  • Simplifying
• Knowing who is a good filterer for your interests/needs & knowing how to access their filtered content
• Finding guides - people you can trust
• Being friends with someone you have never "met"
• How to be co-present - Ito
• Knowing when to unplug
  • Plug In Better
• Remixing - a form of creative synthesis
• Self direction and intrinsic motivation
• ‘transliteracy’ by Prof. Sue Thomas of DeMontford University.
• “the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.”
• Other Lists
  • Contemporary Writing Activities (scroll half way down)

• Multimedia
• Hyperlinking
• Intertextuality (connected to hyperlinking and collaboration)
• World Wide Access
• World Wide Publishing
• Asynchronous or Synchronous
• Ubiquity - Desktops, laptops, mobile phones, embeddable chips, internet of things etc.
• Fabrication Devices - 3D printers, laser cutters, etc.
• Collaboration
  • Open to Everyone (or at least widely open)
  • Less hierarchical?
• Outboard brains - memory, organizational structure, searching
• Tagging
• Microcontent
• Amount of content easily available (good, bad, and ugly)
• Diversity of people/resources available worldwide
• Agency